Question

Who proposed a theory of moral development with three distinct levels and six stages?

• A. Sigmund Freud
• B. Lawrance Kohlberg
• C. B.F. Skinner
• D. Jean Piaget

Answer 1

Answer:

B. Lawrance Kohlberg

Moral Development by Lawrence Kohlberg

• Lawrence Kohlberg - American psychologist

Books : -

1. The philosophy of moral development

2. The psychology of moral development

• Lawrence Kohlberg formulated a theory asserting that individuals progress through six distinct stages of moral reasoning from infancy to adulthood. He grouped these stages into three broad categories of moral reasoning, pre-conventional, conventional, and post-conventional.

Moral Development

• Moral development is the process through which children develop proper attitudes and behavior towards other people in society based on social and cultural norms, rules and laws .

Famous imaginative story Heinz Dilemma

• The Heinz Dilemma is a classic moral story used in psychology, especially by Lawrence Kohlberg, about a man whose wife is dying from a rare disease, and he must choose whether to steal an overpriced drug to save her, highlighting different levels of moral reasoning, from obeying laws to prioritizing human life. The core conflict is Heinz's desperation to save his wife versus the pharmacist's greed and the law against stealing, forcing a choice between legal and moral imperatives. 

• He proposed three distinct level of moral reasoning and each level has 2 stages.

Pre – conventional

Stage 1 : obedience & punishment orientation

Stage 2 : individualism & exchange

Conventional

Stage 3 : interpersonal relationship good boy and

good girl

Stage 4 : Law and order

Post – conventional

Stage 5 : social contract & individual rights

Stage 6 : universal ethical principles.